The year 2008 has been eventful for the PC graphics industry. This is the year which, for the most of the part, saw some serious competition between NVIDIA and ATI. While pure horsepower and value are what determined product superiority, implementing new technologies is what looks to drive GPU makers in 2009. One of the first of these technologies is the introduction of the 40nm manufacturing process, which facilitates GPU makers to step-up transistor counts or even cut manufacturing costs. VR-Zone, based on a few documents it has access to, compiled a list of GPUs that NVIDIA could pull out of its hat in 2009.

To begin with, NVIDIA is expected to have a full-fledged lineup of GPUs top-to-bottom built on the 40nm fab process within 2009. Before it makes the move to the new fab process, the G200b, built on the 55nm fab process will be given a chance to hold the performance and enthusiast segment offerings by the company, in Q1. Come Q2, and the G200b will be succeeded by GT212. All that while, current G94, G96, G98 will hold the mainstream thru value segments, only to be replaced by GT214, GT216 and GT218 respectively in Q3. NVIDIA's gets a newer IGP too, the iGT209. NVIDIA looks to end the year with a newer high-end GPU, the GT300 to succeed GT212 in Q4.

I'm not sure how they can still call a GX2 an "enthusiast" card when it's been out of production for a few months now
And what in the F is a GT212? If it's anything like the previous GT/GTX naming scheme then I don't understand why it's classified in the performance/enthusiast area of this chart.

I'm not sure how they can still call a GX2 an "enthusiast" card when it's been out of production for a few months now
And what in the F is a GT212? If it's anything like the previous GT/GTX naming scheme then I don't understand why it's classified in the performance/enthusiast area of this chart.

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* GT212-> 40 nm technical process, high memory bus capacity , 384 or 480 stream processors. In the performance level it will be close to the GeForce GTX 295. This will allow to replace the two-chip solution GT200b with one chip, with the comparable performance level. Analogous replacement was already produced in the last summer , when the GeForce GTX 280 proved to be capable to replace the GeForce 9800 GX2. Tentative release date is the end of the second or the beginning of the third quarter 2009.

But this is only a whisper. So i think it's nothing new, but much more horsepower.

That just confuses me further, I've read that the new naming scheme is actually going to reflect the performance of the card (who would have ever thought of doing that?)
Looks like NV is just getting crazy again assigning numbers to cards that have no meaning.